Data Quality Contracts in England

Data Quality
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Quality over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 161 218
Rank change year-on-year +45 +57 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 738 779 971
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.00% 1.63% 1.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.51% 12.07% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 521 684
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £440 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £638
90th Percentile £813 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 18 19
10th Percentile £13.49 £19.26 £9.78
25th Percentile £15.39 £21.24 £15.42
Median hourly rate £21.06 £22.49 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -2.24% +9.52%
75th Percentile £44.81 £30.31 £39.63
90th Percentile £58.25 £55.29 £64.40
UK median hourly rate £15.80 £22.49 £21.84
% change year-on-year -29.73% +2.98% -2.96%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Data Quality is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,087 6,452 9,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.78% 13.51% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,361 6,380
10th Percentile £300 £300 £294
25th Percentile £406 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 223 268
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.04 £12.31
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.65 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.35% +54.55% +30.95%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.95 £69.07
UK median hourly rate £22.34 £37.50 £27.73
% change year-on-year -40.43% +35.23% +32.05%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Quality in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Quality in England

Data Quality
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +60 475 £575 +3.60% 217
North of England +42 81 £500 +5.26% 85
South East -13 63 £475 -9.52% 51
North West +26 62 £500 +8.11% 44
Midlands +37 49 £550 +31.34% 43
West Midlands +20 39 £550 +33.74% 25
East of England -7 31 £500 +2.56% 17
South West +4 24 £463 -7.50% 34
Yorkshire +24 20 £378 -24.40% 30
East Midlands +19 12 £422 -38.69% 18
North East +11 2 - - 12
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 56 (7.59%) Apache
2 53 (7.18%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (4.20%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.85%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.36%) Confluence
5 10 (1.36%) SAS
6 3 (0.41%) CMS
6 3 (0.41%) govService
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 50 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.71%) MS Visio
3 17 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.68%) SPSS
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.81%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.41%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
4 3 (0.41%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.41%) SAP PLM
4 3 (0.41%) Siebel CRM
4 3 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.27%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.14%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (18.29%) Azure
2 123 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 116 (15.72%) AWS
4 68 (9.21%) Snowflake
5 49 (6.64%) dbt
6 34 (4.61%) GCP
7 33 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (2.85%) Collibra
10 16 (2.17%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.17%) Serverless
11 13 (1.76%) Azure Stack
12 12 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (1.36%) Azure API Management
13 10 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 8 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.08%) Internet
2 3 (0.41%) Intranet
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) VLAN
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (20.19%) Data Warehouse
2 123 (16.67%) Power BI
3 85 (11.52%) Data Lake
4 60 (8.13%) Tableau
5 53 (7.18%) Big Data
6 51 (6.91%) Metadata
7 44 (5.96%) SQL Server
8 42 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
9 37 (5.01%) Apache Arrow
9 37 (5.01%) Apache Ignite
9 37 (5.01%) Dremio
10 30 (4.07%) NoSQL
11 24 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (3.25%) Data Mining
12 23 (3.12%) Relational Database
13 20 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (2.17%) Hadoop
15 16 (2.17%) MySQL
16 14 (1.90%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 22 (2.98%) ERwin
2 19 (2.57%) JIRA
3 18 (2.44%) Git
4 14 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.68%) MLflow
6 4 (0.54%) Deequ
6 4 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.54%) LSMW
6 4 (0.54%) Postman
6 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) GitLab
8 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.14%) RStudio
8 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 252 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 209 (28.32%) Finance
3 171 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (10.43%) Banking
5 56 (7.59%) Front Office
5 56 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 48 (6.50%) Investment Banking
7 26 (3.52%) Retail
8 22 (2.98%) Local Government
9 21 (2.85%) Marketing
10 20 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 18 (2.44%) Legal
11 18 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.63%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.36%) Law
16 9 (1.22%) Publishing
17 8 (1.08%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 198 (26.83%) Analyst
2 127 (17.21%) Data Analyst
3 112 (15.18%) Data Engineer
4 94 (12.74%) Architect
5 80 (10.84%) Senior
6 75 (10.16%) Data Architect
7 71 (9.62%) Lead
8 52 (7.05%) Developer
9 45 (6.10%) Business Analyst
10 43 (5.83%) Consultant
11 34 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (4.34%) Data Manager
13 28 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (3.66%) Data Business Analyst
15 24 (3.25%) Data Consultant
15 24 (3.25%) Data Quality Analyst
16 22 (2.98%) AWS Software Engineer
16 22 (2.98%) Quality Analyst
16 22 (2.98%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (2.98%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.56%) Pandas
2 38 (5.15%) NumPy
3 37 (5.01%) gRPC
3 37 (5.01%) Protocol Buffers
3 37 (5.01%) SciPy
4 32 (4.34%) PySpark
5 25 (3.39%) REST
6 24 (3.25%) JSON
7 17 (2.30%) XML
8 14 (1.90%) Kafka
9 11 (1.49%) HTML
10 10 (1.36%) Apache Avro
10 10 (1.36%) JSON Schema
10 10 (1.36%) YAML
11 9 (1.22%) CSS
12 7 (0.95%) Middleware
12 7 (0.95%) SOAP
13 5 (0.68%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.68%) RESTful
13 5 (0.68%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.99%) Management Information System
2 47 (6.37%) Derivative
3 43 (5.83%) Equities
3 43 (5.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 41 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 41 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 41 (5.56%) Hedge funds
5 26 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 24 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (3.25%) Reference Data
7 21 (2.85%) NHS
8 20 (2.71%) CMDB
9 15 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.36%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.08%) Cloud Native
13 8 (1.08%) Wiki
14 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.49%) Unix
2 2 (0.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Linux
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (35.77%) Data Modelling
2 233 (31.57%) Data Governance
3 192 (26.02%) Data Management
4 190 (25.75%) Analytics
5 164 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 161 (21.82%) ETL
7 157 (21.27%) Agile
8 148 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
9 133 (18.02%) Migration
10 120 (16.26%) Data Analysis
11 112 (15.18%) Data Migration
12 101 (13.69%) Data Integration
13 99 (13.41%) Visualisation
14 90 (12.20%) Data Cleansing
15 89 (12.06%) Data Pipeline
16 87 (11.79%) Data Architecture
17 86 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (9.76%) Decision-Making
19 65 (8.81%) Data Lineage
20 63 (8.54%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 249 (33.74%) SQL
2 200 (27.10%) Python
3 75 (10.16%) Java
4 56 (7.59%) JavaScript
5 45 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 30 (4.07%) Scala
7 16 (2.17%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.63%) C#
9 11 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.36%) R
11 5 (0.68%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.54%) Bash
12 4 (0.54%) Bicep
12 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.54%) VBA
13 2 (0.27%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) Perl
13 2 (0.27%) XPath
13 2 (0.27%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 92 (12.47%) Degree
2 79 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 70 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.30%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.81%) PMP
7 4 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.54%) PhD
8 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.27%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.27%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) CISA
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CRISC
10 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.91%) QA
2 37 (5.01%) GDPR
3 12 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.08%) SLA
5 7 (0.95%) PMO
6 5 (0.68%) GRC
7 4 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.41%) MiFID
9 2 (0.27%) EMIR
9 2 (0.27%) IFRS
9 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (1.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.27%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (1.90%) Terraform
2 7 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Ansible
3 4 (0.54%) Podman
4 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.14%) Matomo
5 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 68 (9.21%) SAP
2 64 (8.67%) Informatica
3 61 (8.27%) Databricks
4 60 (8.13%) Microsoft
5 41 (5.56%) Oracle
6 28 (3.79%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.30%) Google
8 16 (2.17%) Alteryx
9 15 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.49%) Talend
11 10 (1.36%) Facebook
12 8 (1.08%) Instagram
12 8 (1.08%) Sparx
13 7 (0.95%) Dataiku
13 7 (0.95%) IBM
13 7 (0.95%) Palantir
13 7 (0.95%) Trillium
14 6 (0.81%) Foundry
15 5 (0.68%) Autodesk
15 5 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud